I am importing an unstructured text data file that exceeds the allowed limit per cell for SAS. After fudging around a bit, I have been able to import some of the data, but it is not ideal situation and doesn't pull in the entire file it seems.   Is there a while, perhaps through the infile statement, that I can say, if the string exceeds 32000 string characters, start variable2 and continue to drop the data into successive variables until all text is stored?   example: data file  158,000 characters    var1 var2 var3 var4 tons of characters - aopndvikadfngnf;afngaogkma'psvdmax;clvkdasf gh, q-vw35iv,a -s8eri0t a,zs[0ro86ybuqi4,]-=l "*SIDgkj'pac';ew4l6kgvjw-4n5c  picksup where var1 left off - aonwerdvp maq9nyrgha;oriltluakce;sort8ryacfusfe /;.5gqa7w4pj5ca.seurjcioanuyrec and so on and so forth... till the end of the text file   ... View more